Cartridge-belt.



F. R. BATCHELDER.

CARTRIDGE BELT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 29. I911.

Patented May18,1915.

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THE NORRIS PETERS 50., FHDTD-LITHO, WASHINGTON, D. C.

I F. R. BATCHELDER.

CARTRIDGE BELT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.29, 19H.

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THE NORRIS PETERS 60.. FHOTc-LITHQ, WASHINGTON. D. c,

F. R. BATCHELDER.

CARTRIDGE BELT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.29, 19H.

Patented May18, 1915.

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F. R. BATCHELDER.

CARTRIDGE BELT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 29, 1911.

Patented May 18, 1915.

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FRANK ROE BATCHELDER, 0F WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARTRIDGE-BELT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1915.

Application filed March 29, 1911. Serial No. 617,655.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Ron BATGHEL- DER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at \Vorcester, in the county of Worcester, State ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inCartridge-Belts, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings;

The invention has relation to cartridgebelts, carriers, and otherarticles of woven material having pockets furnished with covers orflaps; more particularly, it relates to such as have a cover or flapmade of a separate piece of material, In the case of these last, thecover or flap usually has been combined with the pocket by inserting aportion of its length into the latter and attaching the insertedportion'to the inner surface of the back wall of the pocket by rivets,or stitches, or both. The inserted portion heretofore has ordinarilyextended all the way to the bottomof the pocket," in order that theinterior surface of the pocket at the back of the latter may be smoothand free from any projection capable of obstructing' the withdrawal ofthe contents of the pocket. The lower end of the inserted portion, iflocated at an intermediate point in the height of the back wall, wouldconstitute a projecting shoulder against which cartridges or clips wouldbe likely to catch in being withdrawn from the pocket, especially ifsuch end were doubled back upon itself so as to turn the cut edgethereof in between the adjoining part of the said in serted portion andthe back wall of the pocket, so as to conceal and protect the said outedge. The inserted portion measures ordinarily two or three inches inlength; hence, the total length of the additional webbing that isrequired for the inserted attaching portions of the covers or flaps ofall the pockets of a cartridge-belt is consider? able and represents aconsiderable cost, adding largely to the expense incurred in themanufacture. Moreover, the additional web bing increasesmaterially theWeight of a cartridge-belt, which is a serious defect from the militarystandpoint.

The invention provides for inclosing and housing the attaching portionof a cover or flap so that the lower end thereof is completely concealedand protected,and also so thatthe formation'of a sharply-defined piecein of the contents of the pocket is avoided. It obviates the necessityexisting in the case of other constructions for extension of theinserted attaching portion of the cover or flap to the bottom of thepocket, and permits the length of such portion to be considerablyreduced so as to materially lessen the weight and reduce the cost. Italso fa-v cilitates the process of manufacture.

In accordance with the invention, the pocket-wall to which the cover orflap is attached is woven for a portion of its depth in distinctthicknesses which are integral portions of such wall, and which forconvenience I term plies, and is woven also with a slit between suchthickness that ad I mits the attaching portion of the cover or iiap,whereby the said portion is housed between the plies, within the slit.The three thicknesses of material are secured together in suitablemanner, as by stitches or rivets,

ing portion is completely inclosed, so that" 7 -85 ternal to thecartridge-receiving interior it is protected and concealed, and beingeX- The attaching portion respace of the pocket it does not constitutean obstruction within the pocket. The bottom of the slit constitutes anintegral junction, located above the bottom of the pocket,

'whichwilllimit the extent to which the in- I serted portion of thecover or flap is introduced. Much less care than heretofore requiredhasto be exercised n inserting the cover or flap-piece and adjusting itinto proper position, and it is easier to keep such i l the requiredposition while being attached. Thereforethe operation of combining theflap or cover with the pocket and securing it permanently in place ismore readily and quickly performed, which con- 7 tributes to reducingthe cost of production. The length of the housing slit may be varied indif erent cases, according as it is deemed advisable to employ a narrowcover or flap or a wide one, or to employ a cover or flapstrip havingthe attaching portion thereof of the same width as the main or coveringportion of the strip or narrower than the latter portion.

In the drawings,-Figure lshows a portion of alcarir dge-cbelt 'orcarrier and'illus trates certain of the principles of the invention.Fig. 2 is a view in vertical section in the plane of line 2, 2, ofFig. 1. Fig.3 is a plan view of the pocket-web of Figs. 1 and'2 beforethe applicationof the flaps or covers thereto. Figs. 4;, 5 and 6 areviews siini'lar to'Fig. 1,-illustrating different embodiments I of theinvention. 1 Fig. 7 is a plan 'of a pocket-web woven with housing slitsexceeding in length thewidth of a pocket. Fig. 8

shows a portion of a cartridge-beltor car-v rier made-of a web on theorderof that shown in Fig. 7. F ig. 9 is a plan view of a pocket-webhaving a continuous. housing-slit. Figs. 10 andll are views each showlnga 1 portion of a cartridge-belt or carrier ,made

,of aweb on the order of that shown in Fig.

9, with a separate-cover or fiapto each pocket. 'Fig. 12 is a'viewshowing .theapplication of a cover or flap extending over :two pocketsto a pocket-web on the order of that shown inFigs; 9 and 10. Figsa13, 14

and 15 are views invertical section illustratm other applications of theprinciples of I the invention; g

- Having reference to the drawings, Yinthe d fferent figures'of thedrawlngsthe respective' poc'kets are marked A, and the portions of webwhich intervene between the pockets are marked B. The back walls ofthere spective pockets arefmarked l, 1 etc. In

' Fi s. .l to 6, the upper portion of the'back wall. 1 is woven in thetwo distinct thick nesses of plieswhichar'e marked 1 ,1", con-.stituting integral portions of the said back wall, and'between whichplies is the hous} ing slit. At bothends of each pocketand at thefbottoniof the slit the two thicknesses or plies are joined together inthe weaving. In the'embodiments of the invention which n are shown inthese figures the length of the two separate thicknesses or.plies-andthe housing slit approximately equals the width insertedintothe housingslit. Consequently,

the marginal portions of the said cover or flap project'laterally atopposite sides of the'pocket, sothat when the cover is closed down intoplace such portions overlie and protect the side 'portions of thepocketand its contents. The cover or fiapC may be woven with itsattaching portion narrower;

than the main portion of the cover or flap,

as shown in Fig. 4, or may be cut to the shape shown in the said figure.In each ,fof

I Figs. 5 and 6, also, the cover or flap,C C

the cover or flap C fin Fig. 5 is made-is of is wider than the pocketwith which it is combined. IThepie'ce of material ofwhich serted betweenthetwo plies,

eral parts 0 c of its attaching portion turned inward'upon the middle ofsuch portion, to reduce the width of the latter, before insertion of thesame into the housing slit which receives it. The cover or flap C of Fig. 6 is woven with a wide upper portion, a. narrower lower portion, andtapering sideportions 0 0 intermediate the wide portions and thenarrower ones.

As will be apparent from Fig. 2, in applying the piece of material ofwhich a'cover or "uniform width throughout, but has the latflapiscomposed, its attaching portion is simply pushed into the housinggslit which has beenprovided for its reception, until its entering endtouches the bottom of .the'slit. The cover or flapthenis securedperma-'.

nently to the pocket by means of stitches 3, r and rivets 4t, passingthrough the two plies and the attachingportion of the cover or ance withmethodsheretofore followed, with '85 flap, or by'stitches alone, or byrivets alone.

The pocket-web may be woven:in.acc0rdtheaddition of a sufilicient numberof warpthreads for producing an additional single ply, and with aproperr modilication ofthe interweaving. of the weft iwith. thewarpthreads to produce the two plies one superimposed upon the other,the additional ply having a selvage and being of a proper width from itsselvageto its junction with the other ply sufficient to afio'rd thenecessary cover forthe cover or flap which is inthose embodiments'of theinvention already described in which the f additional p'lyextendsonly'across the width of thepocket,

the additional warp-threads may be inter- In the case of j woven withthe other warp-threads'and the t weft intosolid fabric at opposite sidesof eachpocket and betweenthe successive pockets, or maybe properlytied'fin at each side ofa pocket and between" the" pockets be thrown tothe back surface'of theweb and floated thereon, and subsequently cutaway.

Advantages of the invention are illus-. trated in thecase of theconstructions shown in Figs. 7 to 12.v In these constructions thelength" of the housingslitexceeds'thejwidth of the pocket, permitting ofthe employment of cover orflap-strips of the same uniform widththroughout. their length, and

wider than a pocket. In Figs. 7 and ,8 the top edgeof the pocket-web iswoven in two practically continuous plies 1, 1 which are tied togetherat a point, 1, inidwaybetween every two pockets by warp-threads crossingfrom oneply to theoth'er. This construction allows a cover orflap-stripto be used which corresponds in width with thelength ofhousing slit intermediate the crossing-over warp-threads at the point 1at one side of a pocket, and the point 1 at the other side of.

such pocket. The coversor-fiaps of adjacent 7 pockets may'almost meet,edge to edge.

In Figs. 9 to 12 two plies 1, 1 and an intervening housing slit, extendcontinuously past two or more pockets, or an entire series of pockets ofa cartridge-belt or carrier, and at each end beyond such pockets to theextent of a portion of an inch. This construction permits the employmentof covers or flaps of uniform width throughout,and exceeding a pocket inwidth. Adjacent covers or flaps may meet, edge to edge, as in the caseof the covers or flaps C C in Fig. 10, or may overlap each other as inthecase of the flaps or covers C, C, in Fig. 11. The narrowing of theattaching portion of a cover or flap-strip, either in the weaving, or byturning or folding over, is rendered unnecessary. The continuous housingslit enables use to be made, when desired, of a cover or flap ofsufficient width to cover two or more pockets, as at C in Fig. 12.

Fig. 13 shows a form of embodiment in which the housing slitfor thereception of the lower end of the cover or flap strip C is locatedintermediately of the height of the pocket. In this form an additionalply, 1 is woven upon the inner face of the back 1 within the pocket,with its lower portion connected with the back in the weaving, its upperedge being unconnected therewith so as to admit the said end of the saidstrip between. the additional ply and the back. Stitches 3 passingthrough the additional ply, the strip, and the back, secure the lowerend of the strip in the housing slit between the two layers 1 and 1 ofmaterial, and rivets 4L secure the strip to the back adjacent to theupper edge of the latter. The addi- I tional ply in this figure islocated in the portion of the pocket which is occupied by the reducedmouth-ends and bullets of the cartridges which are placed in the pocket.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for the top edge of the back ofthe pocket, the

stitches 3 which pass through the said ply and through the lower portionof the cover or fly-strip C and the backbeing below the rivets 4 whichsecure the cover or flap-strip to the back adjacent to the top edge ofthe latter. In Fig. 15 the outer ply, 1 terminates a short distancebelow the top of the pocket and there are two lines of stitches, namely3 and 3 respectively below and above the rivets 4.

I claim as my invention:

A pocketed carrier woven with a pocket for a portion of its depth individed plies with an integral junction located above the bottom of thesaid pocket, and having combined therewith a cover-flap having itsattaching end inserted between said plies and bottoming against saidjunction, and means engaging with the inserted portion and attaching thecover-flap to such web-portion. In testimony whereof I aiiix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK ROE BATOHELDER.

Witnesses:

RosA F. WooDoooK, GRACE E. Minor.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

and having one of its web-portions woven

